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I was stunned that something as simple as flushing salt water through your nose could relieve congestion so fast and effectively, not to mention improve one's quality of life in other ways, too. (And do it naturally - without drugs!) On the other hand, it certainly makes sense that improved breathing would affect many issues. Whatever the case, the time had come to pursue a tutorial in saline nasal irrigation.I learned that nasal irrigation has been the subject of numerous clinical trials, and the results are well established. As Dr. Blake Papsin and Alison McTavish summarized in Canadian Family Physician in 2003, "Nasal irrigation is a simple, inexpensive treatment that relieves the symptoms of a variety of sinus and nasal conditions, reduces use of medical resources, and could help minimize antibiotic resistance."

I learned that nose rinsing has been around a long time. The neti pot, a gravity-based device for pouring saline into one nostril that flows out the other, was first written about in India over five hundred years ago, and was likely invented many centuries before that. I also learned that in 2005, Dr. Mehmet Oz introduced the neti pot to Oprah Winfrey and millions of her friends in 149 countries. Today, the neti pot has been joined by dozens of other nasal irrigation devices. Most of these work by pushing saline into the nasal cavity under pressure - usually generated by squeezing a plastic bottle. This technology is effective but primitive, and off-putting for many. And because the irrigant pours out your nose as it exits, you've got to stand over a sink if you don't want to make a mess of things.